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I Spoke To The Developer Of The Systemd Birth Date PR - YouTube (www.youtube.com)
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[–] 3 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

They DO have a linux native client though, and the whole idea of using systemd according to the PR author IS because application developers can then request this information from user profile

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954

The xdg-desktop-portal project is adding an age verification portal
(flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal#1922) that needs a data source for the user's age.
userdb already stores personal metadata (emailAddress, realName, location)
so birthDate is a natural fit.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Discord does not use Linux user metadata to store information about your Discord account. Because the application is cross platform, they store information about you in their own systems, not in systemd. Their age verification is implemented completely independent of systemd and doesn't rely on the birthDate field.

    It's also software that you can choose to not install.

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